Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:17:39 +0200https://english.radio.cz/president-tries-defuse-situation-ahead-upcoming-state-awards-8210540© 2026 Radio Prague International The Czech president’s spokesman has confirmed the head of state is considering presenting Auschwitz survivor George Brady not with a state honour but a separate award as a “gesture of good will”. The move is an attempt to defuse a widening scandal after the culture minister charged that Brady, his uncle, was struck off the list of this year’s award recipients as punishment for the minister’s meeting with the Dalai Lama. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/zeman10_1.jpg?timestamp=1590631905 https://english.radio.cz/president-tries-defuse-situation-ahead-upcoming-state-awards-8210540 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9